Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-07
FACTS ABOUT MEXICO,
Showing Queer Combination of Ante
diluvisn and Frontier Condition.

the REcoRD-UNIoN, will be found OF deep
interest about affairs in our sister republic
and reads as follows:
PRICES OF LABOR.
In the States of Puebla and Oaxaca,
that contain nearly two millions of inhab-
ltants, very much is offered and little, very
little demand, for work. Hundreds of
thousands OF strong men offer their work
at % cents or Is cents for each twelve
hours. The women serve for monthly
salary, and receive on an average dollar
and half month. 1t is necessary that
people here understand work. That it
will not be profitable for the capital in
vested here in buying work, no doubt will
occur to any man of experience since
where land is plenty, climate good. rich
mines and all the industry for establishing,
1T is evident that for capital it is easy to
buy work that is offered at such low prices,
and invest it in agriculture, the mines and
the industries.
PLANTATIONS OF BANANAS.
a man that gains twenty-tiv cents a
day may very well plant hundred ban
ana plants in day if he has at hand the
plants. For he might put in producing
the hundred plants necessary eight DAYS
more of mans work In this manner the
hundred plants of bananas in full bearing
are worth 81 %. Now, a banana plant in
full bearing is valued at dollar, we have
here plantation worth hundred dollars
by using only 81 % of capital
MANY TROPICAL FRUITS
Might be planted that offer like adyant-
ages as tile banana. The cocoanut, lemon.
orange, sapate. Nancy, custard APP
pie guava, pine apple and many
other fruits pay hundred dollars for
each one invested in plantation of these
and cultivated. Now all these fruits that
are planted in lands near the sea, the price
of transportation in carts to the embarca-
deros is a low sum.
THE PRODUCTION OF COFFEE.
Every person that is conversant with
the cultivation of coffee will admit that
this precious grain may be produced easily
in the south of Mexico, at or 81 cents \
pound, ready to be shipped. For pro
ducing the coffee produced at this price
and even less, alone it is necessary to know
well the mode Of cultivation and to work
the plantations with economy. 1t will be
useless to add, that in this branch alone
may be invested in Mexico many millions
OF dollars the which is doubled and then
tripled in the first ten years.
THE PLANTATIONS OF SUGAR
Produce even better profits than the plan
tations OF coffee. 1t is without any dis
cussion and all doubt, that the plantations
of sugar at this time in lands full of thick
forests, and that have the humidity and
soil suitable, they produce sugar at a cent.
and even less per pound
The natives of the State of Oaxaca pro-
duce brown sugar (azucar noreno) at half
cent pound, using wooden mills and pans
made of earthenware for the eyaporation
of the cane.iuice. 1t is clear that civilized
people, with the capital and the KNOWLEDGE
necessary, may produce good white sugar
at less than cent a pound. With refer
ence to market, in this same republic of
Mexico there is a good market for the
next ten years, since is sold to-day the
sugar IN all the great marts of the
country at to 10 cents pound. and prob
ably there will pass five or ten years before
there are great plantations of sugar cane
to bring the prices down to a general level
OF three cents pound, and then it will be
time enough to commence sending sugar to
foreign countries. Notwithstanding in all
this side of Mexico there are great riches in
mining, if had great capital it would not
be invested Ill mines, since | consider that
capital invested in agriculture is more,
much more, secure, and in time will bring
much better gains. Those who love min
ing have IN the States of Oaxaca, Chiapas,
labasoo and fucatan ample fields where
they can invest energy, intelligence and
capital, with rich returns.
PRICES OF LAMBS.
1t is obtained easily and at a nominal
price, as the proprietor has generally a
great extent of land that he is not inter
ested In retaining, for it produces little or
nothing, and he does not know what adj
vance this property will make in the future
The south of Mexico is an immense and
fertile territory, where hundred million
OF men would find sufficient land to cult
vate.
THE INDUSTRIES.
Though We have raw material in great
abundance we have not single paper.
mill IN all this side In the same state is
every other branch Of the industries. Now
as agriculture and mining are so produc-
tive, believe that in this country for some
time the industries will make little ad-
vance, since the capitalists invest in these
branches. Notwithstanding, under the
prohlbitory duty that we have the indus
tries have ample field to develop, as agri-
culture and mining augment the con-
sumption of all that may be made here for
many years, besides market for many
millions of dollars Of foreign manufactured
wares.
WAYS OF COMMUNICATIONS.
lhey travel on horseback all over the
country, horses being abundant and cheap
since strong horse may be had for only
so or S23. Merchandise is transported
on the mountains by mules and Jacks. and
IN many parts are encountered lines of
carts and good roads. From the Rio Bravo
del Norte, to our frontier in Guatemala.
we have good telegraph routes, that put
us IN instantaneous communication with
all the world. The letters go by
mail on horseback like the Overland
Pony Express, from New York to San
Francisco in the old overland DAYS. with
the difference that those gained $4,000 a
year each one-ours get $500 a wear, and
at times much less, since there are mail
carriers that 60 on foot, carrying the bag
on their shoulders, and only get So for
going $50 miles, aud even more. One
may have an express-carrier take letters,
specimens, samples, etc, distance of 200
miles for only 81 in silver.
No INJURIOUS effects can follow the use
OF Ayers Ague Cure. 1t contains an m
failing antidote and specific for misrna,ic
poisens, together with remedial agents